“Let me say that no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have.”– John McCain.
Five years since Mission Accomplished. 3,920 American deaths since then — 97% of US fatalities. 
While we debate whether Barack Obama was too harsh to Jeremiah Wright, the killing continues.
While Americans say the price of gasoline is a more important issue than the war in Iraq, the blood keeps flowing.
While House Democrats try to pass a bigger appropriation for the war than anyone has aked them for, the death toll mounts.
Four thousand US service deaths. Thirty thousand wounded. Countless thousands damaged for life.
Perhaps a million Iraqis dead. We don’t even try to count. Four million forced from their homes.
Lives and families destroyed, here and in Iraq.
And the beat goes on.
Why can’t we stop this war?
What is wrong with this country?
Don’t talk to me about race or bitterness or the media or the economy.
What is wrong with us as a people?
How can we let this continue in our name?
And how can we possibly be considering electing a candidate who still talks about “victory?”
I can’t write any more; I’m making myself despondent.
I’ll let MoveOn have the last word.
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And we’ve got to stop it.
as i keep the manufactured uproar of the day from my day-to-day life, this last one, the one where a Reverend’s words, opinions and thoughts are given more weight and importance than blood and dismemberment and death… crept in.
ah America. welcome to the clusterf’ck of the circular firing squad. this time it was a classic mixture of religion, politics and race.
somewhere, all the doves are mourning.
How Are You?” The Highwaymen
that is the point.
understanding how to neutralize these kinds of strategies is of the utmost importance and urgency.
we got into Iraq from exactly this kind of manipulation. swift-boating, making the patient the fall guy for the escalating health care crisis, and targeting Rev Wright’s honest bitterness with our gov’t as being wrong…
these are things we must understand and fight. i have to say it again… because they can do this with Rev. Wright is how they got us (well, not me never!) but most of us to think we needed to attack iraq to keep us safe.
it’s all the same thing. we have to shut it down. not by dismissing one thing as more important than another… but beginning to critically understand HOW they are able to seduce the mind… we need to deprogram americans.
but we can’t do that if we don’t understand what is at work here. thinking that pointing out the obvious is good enough is no where near good enough.
we need to stop being amazed and start finding a way to fight back and un indoctrinate our fellow citizens.